2025 DMD Agenda

Plenary Keynote:

Welcoming Remarks
Hubert Lim, Director, Bakken Medical Devices Center

Keynote Presentation "Embracing the Extremes in Organ Preservation"
Korkut Uygun, Professor, Surgery, Harvard Medical School

MedTech Highlight
Shashank Priya, Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Minnesota
Ken Washington, SVP, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Medtronic

• Sponsor Exhibits 
  Visit with our sponsors in the Meridian Foyer between sessions. Refreshments will be available.
   
• A Heart to Learn
  Stop by the interactive educational training opportunity to learn about cardiac and human anatomy.
   
• Guided Lab & Center Tours: 10:00 am Departure
  Sign up onsite and depart from the DMD Conference registration desk on the 2nd floor of the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis. Space is limited.
  • 3D Bioprinting Facility
  • Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
  • Opitz Lab
     
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• Wearable Medical Technology (Meridian Ballroom 1)
• Combat Medicine (Meridian Ballrooms 2& 3)
• Emerging Medical Innovation Valuation Competition (Meridian Ballroom 4)
• Updates from Washington: Navigating FDA and HHS Changes in a Shifting MedTech Landscape (Pinnacle Ballroom)

"The Past, Present and Future of the Total Artificial Heart: A very Houston-centric story"

William "Billy" Cohn, BiVACOR

Additional registration is required.
Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center

• Current Applications and Future Developments of the ASME V&V 40 Standard (Meridian Ballroom 1)
• Orthopedics & Rehabilitation Technology (Meridian Ballrooms 2 & 3)
• Advances in Medical Devices 1 (Meridian Ballroom 4)
• The Healing Nerve: Pop culture got it right (Pinnacle Ballroom)
• Scientific Poster Session (Pinnacle Foyer)

• Sponsor Exhibits 
  Visit with our sponsors in the Meridian Foyer between sessions. Refreshments will be available.
   
• A Heart to Learn
  Stop by the interactive educational training opportunity to learn about cardiac and human anatomy.
   
• Guided Lab & Center Tours
  Sign up onsite and depart from the DMD Conference registration desk on the 2nd floor of the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis. Space is limited.
  • 3D Bioprinting Facility
  • Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
     
• Add to your
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• Cardiovascular Neural Intervention (Meridian Ballroom 1)
• From Concept to Clinic: Accelerating Medical Device Innovation with AI (Meridian Ballrooms 2 & 3)
• Advances in Medical Devices 2 (Meridian Ballroom 4)
• Smart Medical Devices: Creating value and whole person health (Pinnacle Ballroom)

Guided Tour of Visible Heart® Laboratories
Sign up onsite and depart from the DMD Conference registration desk on the 2nd floor of the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis. Space is limited.

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Student Design Showcase & Networking Event
(Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center)

Plenary Keynote: "The Minnesota MedTech 3.0 Strategy" 
Jim Southwick, GREATER MSP Partnership

Fireside Plenary Session: Growing a Successful MedTech Innovation Ecosystem – Hint, it isn’t just the money

• Sponsor Exhibits 
  Visit with our sponsors in the Meridian Foyer between sessions. Refreshments will be available.
   
• A Heart to Learn
  Stop by the interactive educational training opportunity to learn about cardiac and human anatomy.
   
• Guided Lab & Center Tours: 10:00 am Departure
  Sign up onsite and depart from the DMD Conference registration desk on the 2nd floor of the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis. Space is limited.
  • 3D Bioprinting Facility
  • Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
  • Minnesota Nano Center
  • Opitz Lab
     
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• Pediatric Cardiac Technologies (Meridian Ballroom 1)
• Cardiovascular Keynotes (Meridian Ballrooms 2 & 3)
• Five-Minute Pitch (Meridian Ballroom 4)
• Cryopreservation of Organoids, Organs and Organisms for Healthcare, Food and Biodiversity (Pinnacle Ballroom)

"From Inspiration to Innovation: The Bakken Legacy Endures" 

Mary Jo Kreitzer, University of Minnesota

Additional registration is required.
Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center

• Clinical and Real World Evidence-Pediatric Devices (Meridian Ballroom 1)
• Clinical Cases (Meridian Ballrooms 2 & 3)
• Advances in Medical Devices 3 (Meridian Ballroom 4)
• SBIR/STTR Non-Dilutive Seed Funding for Innovative Medical Devices from Concept to Commercialization (Pinnacle Ballroom)
• Scientific Poster Session (Pinnacle Foyer)

• Sponsor Exhibits 
  Visit with our sponsors in the Meridian Foyer between sessions. Refreshments will be available.
   
• A Heart to Learn
  Stop by the interactive educational training opportunity to learn about cardiac and human anatomy.
   
• Guided Lab & Center Tours
  Sign up onsite and depart from the DMD Conference registration desk on the 2nd floor of the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis. Space is limited.
  • 3D Bioprinting Facility
  • Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
     
• Add to your
  • Google Calendar
  • Outlook Calendar

• CM&S for Medical Device Development and Clinical Practice (Meridian Ballroom 1)
• Emergency Resternotomy of the Cardiac Surgery Patient (Meridian Ballrooms 2 & 3)
• Advances in Medical Devices 4 (Meridian Ballroom 4)
• Surgical Robotics and Stroke (Pinnacle Ballroom)

• Guided Tour of Visible Heart® Laboratories
  Sign up onsite and depart from the DMD Conference registration desk on the 2nd floor of the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis. Space is limited.
  
  Add the VHL Tour to your
  Google Calendar
  Outlook Calendar
   

• IEM Innovation Week Networking Event
  Memorial Hall & Heritage Gallery, McNamara Alumni Center

  As a leading voice in research and innovation, you and your contributions to IEM Innovation Week are what makes the week-long event possible. Join IEM for a night of fellowship and heavy appetizers to connect with other distinguished leaders! Confirm you will be attending when you register for DMD!

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